EU TRADE REPORT
July 1st, 2002
Keith NuthallTHE TEXTILE sector was a copybook blot in an otherwise positive report on open markets and liberalisation in the European Union, released recently by the World Trade Organisation. It concluded: "Pursuing trade liberalisation through multilateral, regional and bilateral initiatives, the European Union has maintained its markets largely open, except for textiles and agriculture." Here, it said: "For textiles and clothing products, where following its WTO commitments, the EU has only lifted restrictions on 20 per cent of products restricted in 1990, ...
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